Samsung is an industry leader when it comes to Android OS and security updates. There are only a few Android manufacturers that can match the four years of Android OS and five years of security updates that it provides. Never one to rest on its laurels, the company is now actively considering to expand the […]

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2136203 (!samsung@lemdro.id)

Samsung is an industry leader when it comes to Android OS and security updates. There are only a few Android manufacturers that can match the four years of Android OS and five years of security updates that it provides. Never one to rest on its laurels, the company is now actively considering to expand the […]

  • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    1 year ago

    Google hasn’t actually done the 7 years of support yet. If they were serious about long term support it wouldn’t have been just an announcement. They would be rolling out Android 14 to all the pixel devices from 7 years ago.

      • unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Sure, but it’s nicer that I would stop using my phone because it’s not worth repairing anymore rather than because it’s not supported.

      • ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        This doesn’t stop Google supporting the older Qualcomm phones. It just means they need to be responsible for the drivers, or contract Qualcomm to do it (which will cost Google extra).

          • Markaos@lemmy.oneEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Fairphone doesn’t seem to care much about security (they use public keys for signing their OS afterall!), so they may be fine with those compromises.

            Any source for that claim? Digital signing works with key pairs - a private one for signing and a public one for verifying that something was signed by the corresponding private key. So I take it you’re saying they publish the private keys used for signing somewhere?

    • justalittleguy@lemdro.idEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That literally doesn’t make any sense. When Samsung announced it was going to 5 years it didn’t update all the stuff in the past. It’s a new thing starting with the new devices. They might give a little extension to devices still getting updates, but devices that already stopped getting updates are likely to have been upgraded from already and possibly harder to continue supporting.